120 NEW YORK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY. ~ 
which they have taken in our work, and for the encouragement 
which they have given us. I am very sure that Dr. Miller and 
I both agree that much of the success during the past year in 
our department has ‘been due to the loyal co-operation and faithful 
work of Dr. W. Reid Blair. 
Finally I wish to acknowledge the great benefit which I have 
derived in these studies of comparative medicine from my asso- 
ciation with so thorotighly scientific and advanced a practitioner 
of this important science as the Zoological Society is fortunate 
in finding in the person of Dr. Frank Miller. 
